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October 2, 2018
"Eight Ball" cafe-racer, "Eight Ball" cafe-racer story, cafe racer, CB750 Seven Fifty cafe-racer, Gazzz Garage
Pity, but last two years there were no specialized custom motorcycle festivals or exhibitions in Ukraine. The only event that one may call alike is traditional every year OldCarLand festival. As you may guess from…
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gazzz
September 30, 2018
cafe racer, Kawasaki KZ650 cafe-racer, kz-650, KZ650: intake, KZ650: shopping post
Time for traditional shopping posts. While working on modification of CBX550 wheels, I by the way make purchases for project. I am fond of original Kawasaki KZ650 carburetors look, so I decided to leave them…
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gazzz
September 28, 2018
cafe racer, Honda CBX550 spoked wheels, Kawasaki KZ650 cafe-racer, kz-650
The idea of converting Honda CBX550 Comstar wheels into spoked wheel is not new; many people did this conversion before me. The simplest way is to make drawings and order laser or water cut adapters…
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gazzz
September 13, 2018
cafe racer, Gazzz Garage
Sure, all of my readers know this picture, this very blog started with it. Now we have new piece of art made of it. Sorry for small size of image, but we need it to…
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gazzz
September 10, 2018
cafe racer, Honda CBX550 spoked wheels, Kawasaki KZ650 cafe-racer, kz-650
There is nothing new in using Honda CBX550 wheels, as well as in converting them into spoked wheels. But I suppose, my constant readers waiting for some special features so I’ll try not to disappoint…
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gazzz
September 3, 2018
cafe racer, CB750 Seven Fifty cafe-racer, Garage, Kawasaki KZ650 cafe-racer
One photo of cafe-racer ready and ridden. And another one of bike deep in process of building:-)
gazzz
August 30, 2018
cafe racer, cafe-racer parts, Zephyr 750 cafe-racer
Here is yet another design of tanks pads. Simple and classic so to say. Two more design patterns are still in workshop, hope I get them ready soon. Unfortunately not all patterns of pads upholsteries…
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gazzz
August 27, 2018
cafe racer, cafe-racer parts, Zephyr 750 cafe-racer
Another little update about Zephyr 750 cafe-racer kit. In addition to upgrading the tail light with ECE-approved LED light, I also modified license plate holder to make position of license plate more steeper – according…
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gazzz
August 20, 2018
cafe racer, Kawasaki KZ650 cafe-racer, kz-650, KZ650: engine
I do believe that actual mileage of this KZ650 engine is around 10K kilometres. And it is clearly readable that those mileage was gained in two stages. Some of it was made when bike was…
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